Wrong Official Name of South Korea and North Korea

[yukha-dw]

Hello, I just checked ISO website and found out the defined official name of South Korea and North Korea on this module is different with theirs. Meanwhile, Iran is same.

This	ISO (Short)	ISO (Full)	ISO (Link)
South Korea	Korea (the Republic of)	the Republic of Korea	https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:KR
North Korea	Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)	the Democratic People's Republic of Korea	https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:KP
Islamic Republic of Iran	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	the Islamic Republic of Iran	https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:IR

Is it intentional to easily differentiate them? Thank you

[michaelwittig]

Hi @yukha-dw We usually stick with the official ISO name. In the case of North/South Korea the names are very confusing because they are almost identically. So we decided to go with North/South Korea first.

At least for South Korea, we also have aliases that include the official names, see #312

We also have an alias for Islamic Republic of Iran => Iran

[yukha-dw]

Hi @yukha-dw We usually stick with the official ISO name. In the case of North/South Korea the names are very confusing because they are almost identically. So we decided to go with North/South Korea first.

At least for South Korea, we also have aliases that include the official names, see #312

We also have an alias for Islamic Republic of Iran => Iran

I see, so "official" parameter doesn't guarantee to return official names but more like most common used name, right?

[michaelwittig]

As far as I remember the first entry should be the official name while the second entry is the alias aka most common used name. But I see that not all entries follow this order...